Quick tip for developers who use OS X

Post by arrrg » Tue, Jan 14, 2014, 1:11 AM UTC

fineline wrote: post #265

krrrh wrote: post #238

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Not to mention that the Mac community also pioneered keyboard driven launchers and Linguistic user interfaces like launchbar -> quicksilver -> Alfred. Even though I put a lot of effort into learning windows keyboard shortcuts it always frustrated me how difficult it was to use windows in situations where I didn't have a mouse, while I'd barely notice the same situation with a Mac.

OK here's one. I press command-option esc to Force Quit an app. But how do I then close the Force Quit window (which stays on top of all other windows) without the mouse? Thanks to anyone who's figured this out.

Post by DontGiveTwoFlux » Tue, Jan 14, 2014, 1:34 AM UTC

randomsearch wrote: post #186

natural219 wrote: post #168

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Sorry, but this is laughable. Keyboard shortcuts are far more useful and consistent across applications in OS X. I'm failing to understand how you could form this opinion...which shortcuts / programs don't meet your expectations? I guess I can sum this up by saying OS X has an additional modifier key than Windows, so you basically have 33% more power right out of the gate. The "Windows Key" is nearly useless.

> Sorry, but this is laughable. Keyboard shortcuts are far more useful and consistent across applications in OS X. I don't agree with this at all. I find it baffling that a company of great designers made such bad decisions about keyboard shortcuts. Perhaps they are consistent, but they are consistently bad. Paste and match style (incredibly useful) is "alt-shift-command-v" i.e. four keys. There are plenty of other s…

  tell application "System Preferences"
      activate
      set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
  end tell

  tell application "System Events"
      tell application process "System Preferences"
          click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard"
      end tell
      tell application "System Preferences" to quit
  end tell

  alias f12="osascript .f12Keys"

Post by sandipc » Tue, Jan 14, 2014, 2:24 AM UTC

zampano wrote: post #20

mikeroher wrote: post #6

Two more tips: * Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line * Ctrl-e to go to end of line

A couple more: * ⌘ + ` (tilde key) to switch between different windows of your current application * ⌘ + l (lowercase L) in most web browsers to highlight the address bar

Post by Tyr42 » Tue, Jan 14, 2014, 2:31 AM UTC

bgar wrote: post #287

juanre wrote: post #52

Bash, running in your terminal, understands both the Emacs and the Vi commands. By default is Emacs, so you can C-a (control-a) for beginning of line, C-p to go back in command line history, or C-r to search it. I prefer the Vi mode, though. Add to your .bashrc set -o vi Then you can press escape to go from input mode to normal mode; there k will take you to the previous line in command line history, j to the next li…

To get [NORMAL] on the right side of the terminal like in Vim, I put this in my .zshrc file: function zle-line-init zle-keymap-select { VIM_PROMPT="%{$fg_bold[yellow]%} [% %{$reset_color%}NORMAL%{$fg_bold[yellow]%}]% %{$reset_color%}" RPS1="${${KEYMAP/vicmd/$VIM_PROMPT}/(main|viins)/} $EPS1" zle reset-prompt }

Post by eddieh » Tue, Jan 14, 2014, 3:31 AM UTC

lr wrote: post #225

eddieh wrote: post #116

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defaults write -g NSTextKillRingSize -string 4

Can you shed some light on how to access those other three from the GUI (whether using the command key or some other means)?